Page 11: Historical Events In 1968

Jun 06   Senator Robert F. Kennedy succumbs to being shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan the day before in Los Angeles   

Jun 07   Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60.   

Jun 07   Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination.   

Jun 08   Gary Puckett and The Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"   

Jun 08   James Earl Ray, suspected of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., is captured at the London Airport   

Jun 08   New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted   

Jun 08   Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"   

Jun 10   Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65   

Jun 12   Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76   

Jun 14   Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51   

Jun 15   John Lennon and Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral   

Jun 15   Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88   

Jun 18   Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing   

Jun 19   50000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign.   

Jun 20   Jim Hines is recorded as becoming inaugural person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds   

Jun 21   Ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91   

Jun 21   Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren steps down   

Jun 24   Canadian Sandra Post is recorded as becoming inaugural non-US and 1st rookie LPGA winner.   

Jun 24   Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion.   

Jun 24   Joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title   

Jun 24   Resurrection City closed.   

Jun 25   Tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43   

Jun 26   Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US.   

Jun 27   In this year, Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague   

Jun 27   Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies.   

Jun 28   Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers.   

Jun 29   Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66   

Jun 30   Gaullists win victory in the French National Assembly elections   

Jun 30   John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73   

Jul 01   Dick Young, cricketer (England wicketkeeper v Aust 1907-08), dies   

Jul 01   John Lennon's inaugural full art exhibition (You are Here).   

Jul 01   US, Britain, USSR and 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty   

Jul 02   Francis Brennan, US cardinal of Philadelphia, dies at 74.   

Jul 05   John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce   

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Jan 02   Cuba gooding jr: Actor (boyz n the hood, glaadiator, few good men)   

Jan 02   Scott mitchell: Nfl quarterback (detroit lions)   

Jan 02   Anky van grunsven: Dutch dressage champion   

Jan 02   Evan parke: Jamaican actor   

Jan 03   Kent carlsson: Sweden, tennis star   

Jan 03   Kerry huffman: Peterborough, nhl defenseman (phila flyers, ottawa)   

Jan 03   Shannon sturges: Actress (savannah)   

Jan 03   Thomas rayam: Cfl offensive linebacker (edmonton eskimos)   

Jan 02   Sanoesi pane: Indonesian writer,    

Jan 04   Joseph pholien: Belgian pm (1950-52) communist fighter,    

Jan 05   Jean murat: Actor (on the riviera),    

Jan 06   Kurt baschwitz: Germ/dutch sociologist/journalist (heksen),    

Jan 07   Prof james smith: South african ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

Jan 09   Kokichi tsuburaya: Japanese marathoner (oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   Basil sydney: Actor (hamlet, simba),   

Jan 11   Isidor isaac rabi: American physicist, nobel prize laureate (b. 1898)